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Friday, October 4, 2013

FIGHT CARD UPDATE

FIGHT CARD UPDATE

After the highly
successful launch of last month’s Fight
Card Romance: Ladies Night, we have a wonderful follow-up this month with
the debut of Fight Card: Front Page
Palooka from the dynamic Anthony Venutolo.When he’s not hanging
with his family, or chronicling the antics of Boardwalk Empire for the Star
Ledger, the New Jersey based Ant-man
inhabits Bukowski's Basement (http://tinyurl.com/q294tyh), a blog
dedicated to the Skid Row poet and all things flash fiction. In Front Page Palooka, Ant gives us the
Bogey inspired newshound, Nick Moretti – charming, yet cynical, burned-out,
whiskey-sodden, and not above making sure the right hand doesn’t know what the
left hand is doing.Front Page Palooka has it all ... dames, dives, and hard-punching
attitude.FRONT PAGE PALOOKANewark, New Jersey, 1954Years of fight halls and newsrooms have east
coast sportswriter, Nick Moretti, looking for a change. When a sloppy hustle
goes bad, and Nick takes a bullet in the shoulder, it’s time to go west. Hired by Pinnacle Pictures to write a boxing movie
about troubled heavyweight champ Jericho ‘Rattlesnake’ McNeal, Nick joins
forces with sexy public relations gal, Dillian Dawson, for a cross-country tour
to give an everyman boxer an unlikely shot at the world title – what could go
wrong?From the crackling neon of Hollywood and Sin
City, through the steamy Delta, and on to Chi-Town, the glitzy dream becomes a
noir nightmare, and newshound Nick Moretti is about to commit a reporter’s
greatest sin – becoming a Front Page Palooka ...Another great two-fisted Fight Card tale!

As usual, we
appreciate any and all blog shout-outs, mentions on social networking sites,
and Amazon reviews.Next in the ring, we
have Fight Card: Swamp Walloper –
featuring the return of Patrick Felony
Flynn in the long awaited (at least by me) sequel to Felony Fists – along with Punching
Paradise from Nik Korpon, and Fight
River from Tommy Hancock.Andrew Salmon has
been time travelling back to Victorian, England, as he’s been completing our
highly anticipated December offering for the holidays, Fight Card: Sherlock Holmes – featuring a stunning painted cover
from artist (and new Fight Card team member) Carl Yonder (illustrator of the
hardboiled skull and crossbones comic, Pirate
Eye (tinyurl.com/nncquoe).A big thanks this
month to Fight Card Team member
Jeremy L.C. Jones for his efforts on getting many of our publicity posts out
into the wider blogoverse via Book Life
Now (tinyurl.com/qax5vlr) with
upcoming coverage via Venture Galleries.Jeremy is also the power behind lining up the
numerous fantastic authors contributing stories to three upcoming Fight Card short story anthologies – the
proceeds from which will go to authors in need and other literary charities.Despite his own busy
work schedule, David Foster has continued to produce Fight Card covers not only
for our e-book releases, but also for the paperback versions (along with
beautifully tweaking my efforts at .pdf interior files).Thx, buddy, we couldn’t do this without you.I’d also like to
welcome writer Kathleen Rice Adams into the Fight
Card fold (www.kathleenriceadams.com).
Kathleen is an accomplished writer who will be handling the next book in our hybrid
Fight Card Romance spin-off, and we’re
very much looking forward to her take on Love
On The Ropes ...More next month on
our upcoming Fight Card audio
versions from Dynamic Ram ...Till then, keep
punching ...